Kaimana is a great large sized fruit with great sweetness and small seed compared to the amount of flesh. Kwa Luk is difficult to grow in our soil, mine has died. Iíve never tasted a Kwa Luk nor Peerless.

No Mai Tsze is absolutely the best tasting and also does not do well on its own rootstock but since you will be grafting it onto your established trees, you should be good.

You should look at some of the Australian websites to find out more about the Chinese varieties because they are much bettter than the common varieties that are available here.

Wai Chee is a great fruit and so is rose scented. Kwai Mai Pink is available in Florida and is highly productive with smaller, very sweet Fruit although it is not as perfumed with the Lychee/rose scent/flavor. Kwai Mai Pink can get some fungal discoloration in humid climates but in our climate, it should be clean.

Lychees are one of my favorite fruit and Brad and I hope to plant or graft many of the top varieties at our orchard.

thanks Simon. yes, grafting does work on Lychees, they are easy takes on Lychee on Lychee.

hey behl when is the best time to graft? do anything different then mango grafting? cleft? veneer? suggested length of cut?

we are coming to dead end of grafting season here, look at night temps, its dipping below 60 in my area in Corona. We may have max 2 weeks left to graft and cross fingers that grafts take OR else they will stay green till next season. On Lychees, I found softer wood when you cut if its greenish white inside, its better. I have done both cleft and veneer, lap of min 1" whether cleft or veneer. I did lot of grafts recently and will see how they resolve. When I ordered budwood it was perfect time (in Late May) but volcano outburst and then hurricane delayed my wood from USDA into Sep. I lost the prime grafting season,. but will stay optimistic.

No Mai Tze was the first one to push, both grafts were on Longan rootstock and branches were fresh growth from last 30-days. All others are sleep including No Mai Tze grafts on Lychee rootstocks. I am using HaKip and Brewster lychee plants as rootstock for cocktail lychee trees.

Kaimana, No Mai Tze have pushed on Lychee rootstock as well. Now next would be to study growth habbit and pace of growth on longan vs. lychee grafts, all grafted same day. Note that longan and lychee stocks are planted 8 feet apart and get same sun/water/fertilizer, maintaining same conditions.

Good thing going now is subtle temps where we hit 90 with 30% humidity and then cool off at nights. both longan and lychees are in decent growth cycle and that is helping the grafts to take so quickly, under 10 days from grafting.

Update, see below, not yet out of the wood, but the NMT grafts on longan are looking good. Two have pushed and still looking alive. The other 3 grafts are still alive but not pushing. Thanks for the opportunity, Behl.

Update, see below, not yet out of the wood, but the NMT grafts on longan are looking good. Two have pushed and still looking alive. The other 3 grafts are still alive but not pushing. Thanks for the opportunity, Behl.

Thera, these look like they are long scions cleft grafted on rootstock. Diameter and how long are the scions?

I had a hard time growing lychee cut off from air-layering -- it was slowly died off. Maybe gaft on longan rootstock is the solution to my soil. Where did you get those NMT scion if you don't mind?